Crypto ATMs are getting squeezed hard in the U.S., and Tennessee just took the most brutal swing yet by effectively banning them statewide, as detailed in this crackdown on crypto ATMs. Minnesota, meanwhile, is trying the “fine, but with a leash” approach. Tennessee has made crypto ATM operations illegal statewide. Minnesota is pushing stricter regulation […]
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U.S. banking lobbyists are turning up the heat on crypto again, this time with a fresh demand for stricter AML and sanctions rules aimed squarely at stablecoins and other digital asset intermediaries. Coinbase and other industry voices say the banking crowd is cherry-picking scary numbers to make crypto look like a criminal sewer while ignoring […]
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Ripple CTO David Schwartz has taken a hammer to one of XRP’s oldest fairy tales: the idea that Ripple is secretly sitting on a government deal or hidden master plan that will send XRP soaring. His message was simple — Ripple’s nondisclosure agreements are normal business practice, not a coded prophecy. 1,700 NDAs do not […]
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Bitcoin has pushed back above $78,000, and the market is once again staring down the $80,000 line like it owes somebody money. A huge Strategy buy, a long streak of negative funding rates, and strong spot ETF inflows are feeding a fresh Bitcoin price prediction wave, while Pepeto is trying to grab attention with a […]
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Strategy is aiming for a Bitcoin milestone that sounds like a dare. The company formerly known as MicroStrategy wants to surpass Satoshi Nakamoto’s estimated BTC holdings within the next two years, pushing its corporate Bitcoin treasury strategy to an even more aggressive level. Strategy wants to out-stack Satoshi’s estimated 1.1 million BTC The plan depends […]
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IREN Limited is being priced somewhere between a Bitcoin miner with a shiny AI side quest and a real AI infrastructure play still trying to prove it deserves the premium. IREN stock jumped 7.50% on April 24, then kept moving after hours. The company is pivoting from Bitcoin mining to AI cloud infrastructure and GPU […]
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Metaplanet is back with another Bitcoin buying spree, and this one comes with a $50 million zero-coupon bond that pays no interest at all. Cheap capital? Sure. Free money? Not remotely. $50 million raised through zero-coupon bonds All proceeds earmarked for Bitcoin purchases Unsecured debt with an early repayment clause Already holds about 40,177 BTC […]
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs have logged eight straight days of net inflows totaling $2.1 billion, and BlackRock’s IBIT has hoovered up about three-quarters of that money. Bitcoin responded the way a scarce asset tends to respond when giant buyers show up with a checkbook: it climbed from roughly $68,000 to $77,000 while the ETF bid […]
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A quantum researcher just won 1 BTC for cracking a 15-bit elliptic curve key, and while that is nowhere near enough to break Bitcoin, it is a reminder that quantum computing is not just a lab toy anymore. Project Eleven paid Giancarlo Lelli for a successful quantum ECC break 15-bit key recovered in about 45 […]
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Italian researcher Giancarlo Lelli has landed a 1 BTC bounty after demonstrating the largest known quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) so far, a result that pushes the quantum threat to Bitcoin from abstract worry to something that deserves real engineering attention. 1 BTC bounty awarded to Giancarlo Lelli on April 24 Shor’s algorithm […]
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